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GW Professor’s Research Contributes to Warning Added to Label of the Drug, Propecia
GW Professor, Dr. Michael Irwig, author of a 2011 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, titled, “Persistent Sexual Side Effects of Finasteride for Male Pattern Hair Loss,” is available to speak with media about the recent changes required by the FDA to include a warning about possible…
GW Researchers Discover Biomarker for Advanced Bile Duct Fibrosis and Bile Duct Cancer
GW Researchers, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, and Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, along with colleagues from Khon Kaen University in…
Ophthalmology Announces the Mervin Zimmerman Award for Excellence
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2012) — The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce the first recipient of the Mervin Zimmerman Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology Residency -- Sankaranarayana Mahesh, M.D.
GW Physician Assistant Student, Guillermo Sanchez and GW Residents, Dr. Nishaki Mehta Oza and Dr. Veeral Oza Named New England Journal of Medicine Scholars
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2012) — The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences congratulates Guillermo Sanchez, a student in the Physician Assistant (PA) program; and internal medicine residents Nishaki Mehta Oza, M.D., and Veeral Oza, M.D., for being named New England Journal of Medicine Scholars.
Persistent Sexual Side Effects from Popular Male Pattern Hair Loss Drug (Finasteride) May be Permanent
GW's Dr. Michael Irwig is the lead researcher on a new study that suggests that men who take the drug Propecia (generic name finasteride) and experience sexual dysfunction as a side effect, may not regain normal sexual function even after stopping the medication.
New Findings by GW Researcher Break Tanning Misconceptions: “There is no such thing as a safe tan”
A new study conducted by GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) researchers Edward C. De Fabo, Ph.D., Frances P. Noonan, Ph.D., and Anastas Popratiloff, M.D., Ph.D., has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
Congratulations to Katherine Chretien, M.D.
Congratulations to Katherine Chretien, M.D., associate professor of medicine, for being recognized by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) for her outstanding contributions to educational research.
GWish Director Writes the First Comprehensive Textbook on Spirituality in Healthcare
Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, authored the first comprehensive reference text to examine the growing area of spirituality…
GW Researcher Finds Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Thoughts in Many Former Finasteride (Propecia) Users with Persistent Sexual Dysfunction
New research, to be published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that men who developed persistent sexual side effects while on finasteride (Propecia), a drug commonly used for male pattern hair loss, have a high prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.
GW SMHS Welcomes the Medicine Class of 2016
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences welcomes 177 new medical students. This select group of students was chosen out of 14,700 AMCAS applications, which is the largest number of applications GW SMHS has ever received.